Hi Wise monks.

Currently, I got an entire collection of perl modules I have to install on a machine that have no access to the internet, so I cannot use CPAN with a bundlestyle module.

These modules are tarballs in a directory. How can I write a little perl program to install all of them ? The order of installation is given in a file.

Can I use the CPAN module to achieve that ? or do I need to do 'tar xzf - ; cd - ; perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make test ; make install ; cd .. ' within an horrible shell command ?

Thanx for your lights.

-- Nice photos of naked perl sources here !

In reply to How can I programmatically install a module from file. by jeteve

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